<div dir="ltr">I was talking with a client of mine that is an event planner.  We started talking about the LoCo, and a few ideas.  Without making this email too long, a few thoughts came up to email out to everyone.  One was the right location for the event.  Where do we usually do something like the Exploration?  Is there a standard place for ones in the past? Another was what is the audience we're trying to reach?  He suggested that knowing that would help in multiple influences for location and PR. Last thought was date.  The holidays will make things busy for people and he wasn't sure people wouldn't be busy with visiting or holiday shopping.  If we wait till April or May, we'll have plenty of time.  Anyone have thoughts? Best, Rio <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Ralph deGennaro <<a href="mailto:rmdegennaro@gmail.com">rmdegennaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >   I guess the Exploration was cancelled because of lack of man-power. </div>partly. we haven't got the publicity thing down so that it's both easy and massively effective, so doing two events in the same period would be a stretch unless we leveraged thePR. as i understand it, we keep scheduling an Exploration/installfest N months in advance to be proactive but forgetting when the next release is.  having a xplobuntu just before release is anticlimactic or worse a temptation to install Beta for people who shouldn't be on Beta. having a explorabuntu scheduled  soon after the release party would be good, especially so we can try to co promote. -- Bill <a href="mailto:n1vux@arrl.net">n1vux@arrl.net</a> <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></div> </div>